Rocker Neil Young is mourning the death of his father SCOTT, who died on
Sunday (12JUN05) at his home in Kingston, Canada. He was 87.

The Canadian singer's dad was a popular author and journalist, who
garnered international acclaim with his coverage of World War II, former US
president John F Kennedy's assassination and North America's major sporting
events.

Scott's 1984 book NEIL AND ME was the most successful of his 45 tomes, and
famously revealed his son's musical ambitions were sparked in 1958, when his
father gave him a ukulele.